America the Beautiful Curriculum, 2nd Edition

America the Beautiful Parts 1 & 2, 2nd Edition

America the Beautiful's all-in-one American history, geography, and literature course covers historical events from 1000 A.D. to the present. It includes natural, God-created attractions, major landmarks, biographies, and what daily life looked like in various eras. 

The massive 2-volume set may seem overwhelming until your child opens it and sighs with relief over the plethora of historical photographs, color photos, illustrations, and artwork, plus the reasonably large font with generous amounts of white space.

Great for independent learning, there is no teacher's manual, and the instructions are directed to your child. A new unit is introduced every week with five daily lessons, each with four to six optional activities. Some activities include map work in Maps of America the Beautiful, entries in Timeline of America the Beautiful, and reading assignments from We the People. 

Do you have a voracious reader? He can opt to read two to three chapters daily from suggested literature that you may already have or can easily obtain from your local library. A weekly family activity might include craft and art projects, recipes, or other multi-age activities. 

User-friendly, rich in content and distributed in daily, child-pleasing portions, America the Beautiful effortlessly guides your child chronologically through American history.

Besides the textbooks, America the Beautiful bundle includes:

We the People

A fascinating collection of 150 original journal entries, newspaper articles, advertisements, poems, songs, letters, short stories, speeches, and other historic documents from American history.

Timeline of America the Beautiful

What a terrific way for your child to recap what he has just learned! After a lesson in America the Beautiful, your child will be asked to add an event mentioned to the Timeline of America the Beautiful. Designed specifically to record facts learned in the lessons, Timeline of America the Beautiful also includes occasional black-and-white illustrations that your child might enjoy coloring.

Maps of America the Beautiful

With three to four map activities per week assigned from the America the Beautiful textbook, your child will use Maps of America the Beautiful to create his own historical atlas of the United States.